This is an analysis of the poem Jeppe - Et Sjællandsk Eventyr I Ti Sange that begins with:

Jeg som tilforn, med Piben i min Mund,
Om Vinteraftner, i den mørke Stue,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXXXXXXXbXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXcXbXXXXXXXXXXXXXddXXXXXXXXXXXceXXeXXXX XXXXXX dXfaXXXXXX XXXeXcXXXcXXXXXghhXXXXgXfXfXb ddXXXX XX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,11,52,6,10,29,6,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110110111 110001111 110111111100 111101110001 110101011 1011100 11011101100 11001110111 111101010 110100110111 111011010 100101010100 111001111000 11101110100 1001111110 11111110 11010111 1111100110 11101011 11111111110 01010010100 101101 11011111100 11010111101 1010010 111011 1111011 11111011 1101111101 101110110 11000110 1101110011 1101011001110 110101111110 110111111111 1111111011 111100011 11010111011 11110011111 110111110111 110101110111 11001111111 11011011111 111011101100 111101111000 111101110111 1111011010 1111111000110 11111111110 11110111111 1111 11111111111 110111110 11111110101 11101111101 111001110 1101111000 0111111111 11111110101 111101110111 1111111111 1101011111 110111111 111111111 11101110 11111111 1100110001 1100111110 1111111101 11111011110 111111111 1101111101 111111101 101110111 111111110111 11110101010 1011110110 11010011111 11111111000 111100111 110011100 1110001000 11101111001 111110101 11111111 10011110 1111110011 1101111111 110111111 11111110101 11111000 1111111 1101111101 11110101100 0111011101 111101111 111111 1111101 1110111010 111001001110 111111111 100110111 110101010 1101111110 11111101 1111111111 111010111 11011111011 111111111111 110111110111 1111011 1101010011 11011111 10111110 110011110111 1101001111 1111110101 1111110101 11011011 111100111 110111010 1101010111 1101011111 11111111 111101110 1111011101 11010111010 111111001 111101111 100101111 11111110110 1111110111 11011011 111111011 11011011110 1110011
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 699
  • Average number of words per stanza: 139
  • Amount of lines: 136
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, og, hans, ej, en, d, om, jeg, han, saa, det, du, for are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words da, jeg, i are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines re, d, je, ver, j, nnet are repeated).

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